language learning center · C2 · Lesson 3
Tracing assumptions and consequences
Practice this topic in Chinese: Tracing assumptions and consequences.
Understand and learn
Work from a natural example to useful language, one small pattern, a spoken attempt, and a response that is relevant to your life.
小雨
这一论证假设所有参与者都会对同一种激励作出反应。
The argument assumes that all actors respond to the same incentive.
马克
如果这个前提不成立，结论就不再必然成立。
If that premise fails, the conclusion no longer follows necessarily.
小雨
此外，它把统计趋势转化成了对个人的预测。
Moreover, it turns a statistical trend into an individual prediction.
马克
这种转换会产生文章没有承认的实际后果。
That transition has practical consequences that the text does not acknowledge.
Notice, try, and speak
Understand a natural example and learn a small set of useful words, phrases, and patterns.
Useful words and phrases
These items were selected by the lesson curriculum for practical use—not extracted as an every-word list.
这一论证假设所有参与者都会对同一种激励作出反应。
The argument assumes that all actors respond to the same incentive.
这一论证假设所有参与者都会对同一种激励作出反应。
如果这个前提不成立，结论就不再必然成立。
If that premise fails, the conclusion no longer follows necessarily.
如果这个前提不成立，结论就不再必然成立。
此外，它把统计趋势转化成了对个人的预测。
Moreover, it turns a statistical trend into an individual prediction.
此外，它把统计趋势转化成了对个人的预测。
这种转换会产生文章没有承认的实际后果。
That transition has practical consequences that the text does not acknowledge.
这种转换会产生文章没有承认的实际后果。
我会把结论重述为一个有条件的假设，而不是规则。
I would recast the conclusion as a conditional hypothesis, not as a rule.
我会把结论重述为一个有条件的假设，而不是规则。
Notice, try, and speak
Which Chinese sentence has this meaning: “The argument assumes that all actors respond to the same incentive.”
Make it yours
Say the five Chinese turns aloud, then connect two of them naturally.
Change one detail so the message is true for your own life or opinion.
Use it with someone
Use this Chinese in a real conversation
- 1. 这一论证假设所有参与者都会对同一种激励作出反应。
- 2. 如果这个前提不成立，结论就不再必然成立。
- 3. 此外，它把统计趋势转化成了对个人的预测。
- 4. 这种转换会产生文章没有承认的实际后果。
- 5. 我会把结论重述为一个有条件的假设，而不是规则。